Improvement in advertising-frames



'WARREN H. SADLER AND JAMES M. DRYSDALE, OF v BALTIMORE,

MARYLAND.

Lem/rs Patent No. 88,910, dazed 111ml 13, 1869.

IIVIPROVEMIENT .ADVERTISING-FRAMES.

ne scheme referred w m time Letters Patent and making pm ofthe me To allwhom it may concern:

Be it known that we, WARREN H. SADLER and J AMES M. DRYSDALE, of thecity and county of Baltimore, and State ofvMaryland, have invented a newand improved Picture and Advertising-Frame; and we do hereby declarethat the following is a full, clear, and exact description of theconstruction and operaf tion of the same, reference being had to theaccompanying drawings, making a part of this specification, in which-Figure l is a cross-section.

Figure 2 is a front view of the back-board, the border, card-board,pictures, 85e., having all been removed.

The object of this invention is to provide for public use a cheap,convenient, and ornamental device for holding and displaying pictures,cards, or advertise- .ments, and so constructed, that at any time one ormore of the pictures, cards, Ste., may be removed or introduced withoutdisturbing the others, and without' the necessity of taking the framedown from the wall, or removing its glass or back, while at all timesits contents are securely held, and cannot be tampered with by any onebut the proprietor, or party having charge of said frame.

In the dlawings- A indicates the border of the frame, the lines a aarepresenting meiely the edges ofthe mouldings thereof.

B is a glass plate, designed to cover the card-board, pictures, 85e.,and protect them from dust.

Behind the glass is a board, of paper, pasteboard, or any other suitablematerial, designed to cover the edges of the pictures, Ste., and theparts of the backboard that would otherwise be exposed, and thus to forma neat border or setting for each picture, card, or advertisement.

1t is composed of a body .of substantial material,

lshown in red at c, and covered on both sides with neat and ornamentalpaper, or other material, seen at e c. It is provided with openings,through which the several pictures, cards, Snc., can beseen, the bordersofthe openings being ornamented in any suitable manner.

This board, which we shall, for convenience, denominate the card-boardf?is shown only in section in fig. 1, the open spaces above referred tobeing located at o o. g Behind the card-board is the back-board D, thefront view of which is shown in fig. 2, all the above-described partsbeing removed.

This is a rectangular board, preferably of wood, hav-l ing at its centrea rectangular removable piece, D'.

lt is provided with a raised bead, rib, or flange,d, extending aroundthe edge of the central openingthat receives the removable piece D',from which raised ange other flanges, d cl, of similar character, branchol, extending to the outer edge of the board, in a directionperpendicular to such edge.

The corners of the board, at cl2, are raised, so as to be' Hush with theface of the flanges d-d.

This construction leaves a large rectangular depression at the centre ofthe board, and a series of smaller manner that a window-sash is cut awayto receive and hold the edges of the glass.

The openings o o in the card-board, are arrange'dto I,

come directly in front of the depressions, or cardspaces'da, and thelarge space at the centre.

The card-board is to be placed accurately upon the back-board, so as tobring all the openings in the proper position, the glass placed upon thecard-board, vand the ornainented border A placed upon the card-board, soas to hold the glass in position; and these parts are then fastenedtogether by means of a screw at each corner.

The pictures, cards, 85e., are then slid into place,

and are confined there, so that they cannot be removed, by means ofsliding strips s, introduced` around the edges of the apparatus, in themanner shown, in g. 1, suitable grooves being out in the front edge ofthe back-board, and in the rear side of the border-piece, for thepurpose of receiving andretaining the strips.

We preferably employ two strips on each side of the frame, and providefour small locks, one at each cor ner, to hold four of thestrips inplace.

`Each of. these four strips will hold in place the adjoining four stripsrespectively adjacent to them, the grooves being so arranged that whenthe latter strips are inserted, one of their ends abuts against the sideof the adjacent strip, (extending along the otheredge of the apparatus,)and the other end lies in contact with the end of its companion-strip inthe saine groove,

the latter being locked, as above described.

Of course, if there are not eight, twelve, or more of these strips thusemployed, the four locks will hold the four strips that are used, andeven two locks would be sufficient for the purpose, if properly arrangedso that one lock would hold two adjacent strips.

Having thus described our invention,

`What we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is l rJhepicture and advertising-frame herein described,

consisting of the border A, the back-board D, having the detachable andremovable part D', the anges d `d, the raised parts d, and thedepressions d3 d3, with their outer edges open, and the sliding strip s,working in grooves in the back-board and borders, when the several partsare constructed and arranged in the manner and for the purpose setforth.

WARREN H. SADLER. JAMES M. DRYSDALE. Witnesses:

E. BURNETT, p F. H. WILLIAMS, OHAs. A. Pnr'rrr, S. O. KEMON.

